Enter/Exit Vehicle with the same key?

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1

Hello guys,

My player can not enter and exit a vehicle with a single key:

OnTriggerStay(){
    if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F)){
	    enterVehicle();
	    Debug.Log("Vehicle: " + interactableObject + " Entered");
    }
}

When the player is in the vehicle, the script looks again (activates following code) if the key is pressed, but immediately. Since one presses the key more than 1 frame (so the key is not released), this causes the player to exit the vehicle after he got in. LOL

Update(){
    if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F)){
	    exitVehicle();
	    Debug.Log("Jumped off Vehicle: " + interactableObject);
    }
}

I wonder if there were a function called Input.SetKeyUp() to reset the state of the key / change it back to false. If so, I would write it underneath the enterVehicle()-command in the if-statement to prevent getting off the car in the second part.

However, this works if I ask for different keys as expected.

3

Instead of putting the command for exiting the vehicle in the update function. You can make it a function of its own (for the sake of this post we will call that function (void ExitVehicle). Thus
OnTriggerStay() if the keycode F is pressed. InvokeRepeat the function : void ExitVehicle() Put this InvokeRepeating on your OnTriggerStay()

//0.1f is when the function gets called after it execute that line of code.
//60.0f is, how many times it repeats the function. (because this is 60 it is the same as the (void Update)



InvokeRepeating("ExitVehicle",0.1f,60.0f);

void ExitVehicle(){
  if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F)){
         exitVehicle();
         //cancles the invoke called ExitVehicle
         CancelInvoke("ExitVehicle")
         Debug.Log("Jumped off Vehicle: " + interactableObject);
}
}

You also maybe want to assign some parameters to your OnTriggerStay. That will prevent weird glitches like entering a vehicle while you are miles away standing in another collider.

EDIT : and as Positive7 mentioned. you can also make a bool. (I overlooked the fact that the movementscript has to be On all the time. So you can make a bool like this.

   bool VehicleEnter = false;

void OnTriggerStay(){
    If(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F)&& !VehicleEnter){
    VehicleEnter = true;
    enterVehicle();
    }
}

void Update(){
    if(Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.F) && VehicleEnter){
    VehicleEnter = false;
    exitVehicle();
    }
}

I am not sure if this code will work because I haven’t tested it but
if !VehicleEnter and VehicleEnter doesnt work in the ifstatement, than change them to VehicleEnter==false or VehicleEnter==true

2

Set the first script to GetKeyUp